Transcript Tisha B'Av תשעה באב Ninth of Av

Tisha B'Av
‫תשעה באב‬
Ninth of Av
A Day of Mourning for the
destruction of the ancient
Temples and Jerusalem,
and other major calamities
which have befallen the
Jewish people.
The twelve spies sent by Moses to
observe the land of Canaan returned
from their mission.
Only two of the spies, Joshua and
Caleb, brought a positive report,
while the others spoke negatively
about the land.
For this, all of the Israelites were
punished by God that their
generation would not enter the land.
The First Temple built by
King Solomon and the
Kingdom of Judah was
destroyed by the
Babylonians led by
Nebuchadnezzar in 587 BC.
The Second Temple built by
Ezra and Nehemiah was
destroyed by the Romans in
August 70 AD, scattering the
people of Judea and
commencing the Jewish
exile from the Holy Land.
The Romans crushed Bar
Kokhba's revolt and
destroyed the city of
Betar, killing over 100,000
Jews, on 132 AD.
Following the Bar Kokhba
revolt, Roman commander
Turnus Rufus plowed the
site of the Temple and the
surrounding area, in 133
AD.
Over time, Tisha B'Av has
come to be a Jewish day
of mourning, not only for
these events, but also for
later tragedies.
The First Crusade officially
commenced on August 15, 1096
(Av 24, AM 4856), killing 10,000
Jews in its first month and
destroying Jewish communities
in France and the Rhineland.
A grand total of 1.2 million Jews
were killed by this crusade that
started on the 9th of Av.
• The Jews were expelled from
England on July 18, 1290 (Av 9,
AM 5050).
• The Jews were expelled from
France on July 22, 1306 (Av 10,
AM 5066).
• The Jews were expelled from
Spain on July 31, 1492 (Av 7,
AM 5252).
Germany entered World
War I on August 1–2, 1914
(Av 9-10, AM 5674), which
caused massive upheaval
in European Jewry and
whose aftermath led to
the Holocaust.
On August 2, 1941 (Av 9, AM
5701), SS commander Heinrich
Himmler formally received
approval from the Nazi Party for
"The Final Solution".
Almost one third of world's
Jewish population were
captured and killed at that time.
On July 23, 1942 (Av 9, AM
5702), began the mass
deportation of Jews from
the Warsaw Ghetto, en
route to Treblinka.
Most religious
communities use Tisha
B'Av to mourn the
6,000,000 Jews who
perished in the Holocaust.
AMIA bombing of the
Jewish community center
in Buenos Aires, killing 85
and injuring 300 on 18 July
1994 (10 Av, AM 5754).
Israel's unilateral
disengagement plan, also
known as the
"Disengagement plan", "Gaza
expulsion plan", or Hitnatkut,
began on 15 August 2005 (10
Av, AM 5765).
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tisha_B'Av